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Honeycomb Timbale

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Honeycomb Timbale

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the macaroni in boiling salted water until tender.

  2. Remove the macaroni and place it on a cloth to cool.

  3. Cut the macaroni into pieces that are ½ inch long.

  4. Thickly butter a dome-shaped mold or bowl.

  5. Stick each piece of macaroni into the butter, closely together, to cover the mold.

  6. Fill the mold with the chicken timbale mixture.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + chickentop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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